bank, and carried away, beyond all hope of rescue, one of two girls who had rashly gone too far down the stream. The train remained at the river for a period of three days, the Indians were pursued for many miles, but it was all in vain. The young husband never saw his young wife again. One of the young women was slightly in advance of the other, and those few steps made this difference, that one was lost, the other saved. And the young woman who escaped was the writer's sister. Something of all the passions; something of all the passions-joy, love, hope, fear, and the others, too, must have been recorded in the pages of my last diary. Or, rather, there should have been, had the youthful writer of those pages put down upon them what he once actually looked upon, as now he recalls them mentally. They must have told, too, how a foe even stronger than the Sioux, one not to be gainsaid, took away a sister at last. We took the oaken wagon seats to make her little coffin. Did it tell how we laid her away to rest, after those days of suffering, when she was carried by turns in our arms, to save her what pain we could? did it tell, then, how she was laid beneath the cottonwoods, where ripple the waters of Laramie, and how the soil was hardly replaced in the grave ere we must depart? Did it tell of the wild night of storm and darkness, through which later we passed? The remainder of "The Journey" was for us, darkened by that ever-remembered tragedy. President Ben E. Rich of the Eastern States Mission died Saturday night, September 13, in New York, from the effects of a stroke of apoplexy which was the culmination of an illness of long duration. During the past year President Rich had experienced a nervous break M. I. down, and for four weeks prior to his death he was critically ill. At his bedside when he died was Mrs. Diana F. Rich, Benjamin L. Rich of Salt Lake, and Dr. Lorin Rich of Ogden. The body left New York for Salt Lake City on Tuesday, 16th, and the funeral services were held in the Tabernacle in this city on Sunday, September 21. President Ben E. Rich was the son of Charles C. Rich, a member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles from 1849 to 1833, and was one of the early settlers in Utah, arriving here October 3, 1847. President Rich was one of fifty-two children. He received his education in the Salt Lake City Schools. For twelve years he was employed as salesman in Z. C. When twenty years of age he removed to Ogden, and later became manager of the Equitable Co-op. On December 7, 1877, he married Diana Farr, daughter of Lorin Farr. In 1880-83 he filled a mission to England, returning with a party of 700 emigrants for Utah and Idaho. He labored in Ogden for himself in a variety of activities, on his return from his mission, mingling religion, politics and business and becoming prominent in each. In 1893 he removed to Rexburg, Idaho, where he edited the Rexburg Press, and the Silver Hammer. Later he removed to St. Anthony. In 1893, he published Mr. Durrant, That Mormon, and later wrote numerous pamphlets and booklets which were widely distributed, among them Scrapbook of Mormon Literature, two volumes. January 10, 1898, he was set apart to take charge of the Southern States Mission and there founded the Elders Journal which was later combined with Liahona and called Liahona the Elders' Journal. Since that time he has been continually engaged in missionary work making frequent visits to Utah. For eleven years his home was in Chattanooga. On July 21, 1908, he was called to the presidency of the Eastern States Mission, where he was engaged at the time of his last illness. In both these missionary fields he became widely known, and his work has been an important factor in the growth and spread of the work of the Church. By his courage, loyalty and independence he won friends in every locality he visited. He was one of the most fearless expounders of the principles of the gospel, and in his career, beginning at Ogden, he has met and debated frequently with active anti"Mormons", always leaving a strong impression with the hearers in favor of the truth. One of his strong characteristics, aside from his courage, was his great fund of humor, which gave him prestige wherever he appeared. The Underwood-Simmons tariff bill was passed by the Senate September 9, by a vote of 44 to 37. The bill was sent promptly to the conference committee, which had not reported up to September 23. On free wool and free sugar, the cardinal features of the new tariff, the Senate and House were in complete harmony. After the bill had passed the House, President Wilson declared that, “A fight for the people and for free business, which has lasted a long generation through, has at last been won, handsomely and completely." The bill has been in Congress over five months, being introduced in the House on April 7, passed by the House May 8, referred to the finance committee of the Senate, May 16, reported to the Democratic caucus, June 20, where it was discussed until July 7, and reported to the Senate by the finance committee July 11. It was discussed in the committee of the whole on September 6 and, as stated, passed by the Senate, September 9, and taken up by the conference committee September 11. The Senate reduced the exemption limit of the income tax from $4,000 to $3,000, and also exempted from the income tax provision the incomes of mutual life insurance companies, which revert to the benefit of the stockholders. Cattle and wheat were placed on the free list, and the first reduction in the present sugar duties was postponed to take effect March 1, 1914. 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